Malika
Well-Known Member
Hello all. For anyone who cares ) ), here is a little update on J.
We've just come back from three weeks in the UK - a week longer than planned because I forgot our passports at the friend's I was staying with, as I discovered just as we were leaving my mother's (where I had gone after) for the airport... good luck, bad luck, who knows. I had loads of work, J had to go to a British nursery (pre-school) for a week, meaning he was in a class with 3 and 4 year olds. And loved it! Played to his heart's content, learnt little rhyming songs, got on well with everyone. He and my mother are very close and he was in great sobs when we left. England is so much better for us really - people much more relaxed and tolerant, on the whole. He was generally okay, had a couple of big meltdowns related to the usual sensory/fatigue/thwarted wishes thing.
Just before we left I had a consultation with my mother's homeopath, who works with something called CEASE therapy, for autistic and related disorders. She impressed me, and she talks about it as something approaching a miracle cure, over 6 months to 2 years.... Of course I reserve judgement at this stage but she says she has had excellent experience.
Meanwhile I have let my house from May 1 and have honestly no idea right now whether we are going to Morocco, England or staying in France. I have some serious legwork to do re schools.
So there we are. J has been adorably sweet and completely maddening. Usual thing. I begin to see his sensory overloads, see that he needs to be taken care of differently because of them. It's almost meaningless to talk about bad behaviour, really... he just gets overwhelmed, can't deal with things.
Which I understand...
We've just come back from three weeks in the UK - a week longer than planned because I forgot our passports at the friend's I was staying with, as I discovered just as we were leaving my mother's (where I had gone after) for the airport... good luck, bad luck, who knows. I had loads of work, J had to go to a British nursery (pre-school) for a week, meaning he was in a class with 3 and 4 year olds. And loved it! Played to his heart's content, learnt little rhyming songs, got on well with everyone. He and my mother are very close and he was in great sobs when we left. England is so much better for us really - people much more relaxed and tolerant, on the whole. He was generally okay, had a couple of big meltdowns related to the usual sensory/fatigue/thwarted wishes thing.
Just before we left I had a consultation with my mother's homeopath, who works with something called CEASE therapy, for autistic and related disorders. She impressed me, and she talks about it as something approaching a miracle cure, over 6 months to 2 years.... Of course I reserve judgement at this stage but she says she has had excellent experience.
Meanwhile I have let my house from May 1 and have honestly no idea right now whether we are going to Morocco, England or staying in France. I have some serious legwork to do re schools.
So there we are. J has been adorably sweet and completely maddening. Usual thing. I begin to see his sensory overloads, see that he needs to be taken care of differently because of them. It's almost meaningless to talk about bad behaviour, really... he just gets overwhelmed, can't deal with things.
Which I understand...